The soviet union led to the icy relations with the u. S. In the cold war. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a Nuclear Strike capability against the western hemisphere. Reporter while his allies agreed to remove their missiles, castros animosity towards the u. S. Survived. In 1999, the custody battle over Elian Gonzalez playing out as castro demanded the his mother had drowned while escaping with him to the u. S. Armed u. S. Agents forcibly removing the boy from his miami relatives, returning him to his father in cuba. And there is guantanamo bay, the naval base leased by the u. S. From the casino toe regime since 1959 after the controversial practice of housing terror suspects, castro repeatedly denounced the u. S. Being used to do americas dirty work. Ten american president s tried to isolate castro and hope for his demise. Then in 2013, this defining moment, president obama shaking hands with president raul castro at Nelson Mandelas funeral, paving the way